Quotes About Relevance

I knew that we were sharing something with our eyes, but I didn't know what, and I didn't know if it mattered.

se nada importa, não há nada a salvar

La mayoría de las personas son como alfileres: sus cabezas no son lo más importante

It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man likes owing anything to his contemporaries. The repeated but irrelevant points of congruence between Joyce's Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey continue to attract (though I shall never understand why) the dazzled admiration of critics.

And I believe there was a rabbi who wrote that the Holy Scriptures were specifically destined, predestined, for each of its readers. That is, it has a different meaning if any of you read it or if I read it, or if it is read by men in the future or in the past.

A classic book is a book which generations of men, driven by various reasons, read with that same initial fervor and that same mysterious loyalty.

las palabras últimas fueron ut nihil non iisdem verbis redderetur auditum.

Poetul vremurilor noastre nu poate întoarce spatele epocii sale.

A book of genius is a book that can be read in a slightly or very different way by each generation. - The Enigma of Shakespeare

Todas las teorías son legítimas y ninguna tiene importancia. Lo que importa es lo que se hace con ellas.

There is no need to waste words showing that not everything is useless which cannot be brought under the definition of the useful.

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.

You can keep an old tradition going only by renewing it in terms of current circumstances.

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it.

Ned felt vaguely insulted. And unimportant. It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

more often than not, an exhibition is merely a misplaced object.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Poetry does important work and that work has a bearing on real life, but I've often been stymied by the question of how poems can effect material change in a world that is, generally, not especially interested in what poetry or poets have to say.

By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not. (Joshua Malina, Sports Night)

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

They only care about the story we're going to tell, and that story will be useful to them or it won't. When they ask you what happened to our flag and portraits, what story are you going to tell them?

Most people ignore most poetry because Most poetry ignores most people.